Recent Arrivals from Uncommon Works

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition, as stated in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing wear at crown and corners, tiny tear to top center of rear flap. xix, 408 pages: illustrations; Octavo. The Arawaks were the first people to live in the… Read more about this item

London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good First U.K. Edition. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper in 1910. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Tes streak near lower spine. Heavily bumped lower corners and moderately rubbed upper corners. Offset and toning to endpapers and… Read more about this item

Seattle: University of Washington, 1976. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/fine. A very good first American edition in a fine dust jacket. Book is very mildly cocked and has foxing on the fore edge only. Text and illustrations are clean and bright. Binding is tight. xx, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations throughout. Octavo.… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Toppan Print. Co., Ltd., [nd]. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very good/none as issued. Byron Smith; Robert C. James. About very good presumed first edition, Blue pictorial boards, art endpapers. Rear top corner badly bumped (bent about 3/4" in). Previous owner's name stamped in red on title page. Corner crease to both of the foldout maps.This is volume… Read more about this item

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Good +/missing. A good plus first edition, scarce on the market. Burgundy cloth boards. Bumped corners. Front hinge exposed. Two previous owners' names on first free endpaper. No other markings. No dust jacket. xvi, 438 p. Created in 1924 by the Rogers Act, the Foreign Service combined all consular and… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good +. A very near fine first edition, as stated, in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Brown paper boards over dark brown quarter cloth. Brown topstain. Strong binding. Map endpapers. The only flaw to the book is one mild erasure mark on… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. Huaman Poma. A very near fine first edition in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with black box title stamping on spine. Blue topstain with a light streak. Test is clean and bright, binding square and tight. Jacket… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1891-1892. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good/none as issued. A very good, complete limited edition in 32 volumes. Limited to one thousand copies, this set being number 271. Green cloth boards with paper label. Top edges gilt. Various conditions, but all very good. Fraying to most crowns, and hinge starting on some volumes. Bumped and… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good plus fifth printing in a very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with midnight blue topstain. Previous owner's name stamp in red on first free endpaper. Jacket shows mild loss at crown of spine of jacket extending down to a short tear, and… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1954. Early Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine early printing denoted by this being the last book listed by the publisher in "Other works by..." front matter. Blue cloth boards with map endpapers. In a very good dust jacket shelfwear at all corners and two tiny closed tears at crown of jacket.… Read more about this item

San Carlos, California: Nourse Publishing Company, 1960. Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. A fine second edition, as noted in Worldcat, on the inner flap ("this new edition"), and from the two copyright dates on the copyright page. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with tiny loss in two spots at top edge. Dust jacket is also toned… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/as new. A fine (as new) first edition, first printing in a fine (as new), unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. Complete number line. xvii, 378 pages: illustrations, maps. Octavo. Symonds tells the story of five critical naval engagements that have changed the course of American… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, ca. 1954. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. Various. A pristine, fine, complete 6 volume set, as issued by the book club. Blue cloth boards with gilt titlestamping on spine. Yellow topstain. Later printings. No flaws. No dust jacket. Shipping at actual cost for this multi-volume set. 660, 480 pages. Octavo. Originally published… Read more about this item

New York: John B. Alden, 1885. Reprint. Cloth. Good +/none as issued. A good plus / very good complete three volume set (6 books in 3 volumes). Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping. Top edge gilt. Wear and mild rubbing top and bottom edges of all volumes. Vol 1 & 3 showing mild wear at foot… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good +/near fine. A very good plus first American edition, as stated, in a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to bottom edge of cloth 1/8". xviii, 524 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, Octavo. A biography of Charles II, 17th century British king… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. A fine first edition, first printing in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Jacket showing minimum amount of wear. xxix, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; maps; index. Octavo, he Boer War (1899-1902) looms in retrospect as Britain's Vietnam: a… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in an equally fine, unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line. xviii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. Octavo. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A very near fine first edition, first printing with complete number line. Appears unread. Top right corner and bottom edge mildy bumped. In a very near fine unclipped dust jacket. 543 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Octavo In this book, acclaimed… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/as new. A fine first edition, first printing in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. 299 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates. Octavo. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany, by historian and best selling author Stephen Ambrose,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. xvi, 779 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) . Octavo A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American… Read more about this item